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E-Mail Mobs Materialize All Over
Inexplicable "flash mobs" are starting to form all over.
Begun in New York City, the gatherings are popping up in San Francisco, Minneapolis and suburban New York City, just north of the city. There also is talk of launching a similar group in London.
Flash mobs are performance art projects involving large groups of people. Mobilized by e-mail, a mob suddenly materializes in a public place, acts out according to some loose instructions, and then melts away as quickly as it formed.
Sean Savage, a 31-year-old San Francisco designer and weblogger who has followed flash mobs, said these kinds of semi-anarchic gatherings have roots that go at least as far back as the late 1970s.
Savage said San Francisco groups like the Suicide Club and the Cacophony Society have been staging group pranks in the city for decades, while Santa Rampage has been an annual San Francisco tradition for nearly a decade and has spread to more than 15 cities worldwide.
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Microsoft Giving Away Best Selling eBooks
Microsoft Corp. has made 60 best-selling eBooks available for free download by users of Microsoft Reader, including the version that comes on Pocket PCs. These books represent a wide cross-section of authors and books from a variety of publishers
The 20-week promotion will feature three new titles each week. These are not public domain books available for free anywhere else. Among these will be "A Short History of Nearly Everything," by Bill Bryson; "The Joy Luck Club," by Amy Tan; "Fear Itself," by Walter Mosley; and "Beach Music," by Pat Conroy. Each will be available for only a week.
These will be available from the Microsoft Reader Web site starting, July 4.
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The successor to the World Wide Web
In two weeks' time scientists in Geneva will throw the switch on the biggest development in global communication since Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Internet, scrawled 'www' on a blackboard in 1989. They will announce that 10 laboratories around the world can now talk to each other through their computers.
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Hyper-light-speed antenna (US6025810)
Patent files for Hyper-light-speed antenna (US6025810)
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Eureka! It's the structure of creation.
THE MIRROR MIND OF THE CYCLIC UNIVERSE"The latest Big Bang theory proposes a cyclic universe --driven by colliding membranes. The new model supports analysis that a human-like mirror mind created our universe. The wall in science is coming down.
M theory, proposes that the universe consists of two parallel sheets, or membranes, in a higher dimension. The two so-called 'branes' are separated by another dimension only nanometers wide. When the membranes slap together, they trigger the big bang and begin rapidly expanding like stretched latex."
They make it sound so....sexy.
"As they approach each other, both 'brane' surfaces warp and develop topographical features: hills and valleys on their surfaces. These features determine where the matter and energy of the big bang will subsequently appear as galaxies in our 3D space. The cycle repeats indefinitely --which answers, to a degree, the question of what came before the Big Bang."
Fascinating article.
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Voicemail for the aliens
This weekend, humanity is leaving another message for E.T., via the 230-foot Evpatoria radio telescope in Ukraine. The high-power radio transmissions will include the famous 1974 Arecibo broadcast to the stars, a coded "Rosetta Stone" on mathematics and science developed by Stephane Dumas and Yvan Dutil, and a series of text/video/audio/photo messages from paying customers as well as dignitaries such as former astronaut Sally Ride.
The "Cosmic Call," developed by Houston-based Team Encounter, will be emceed from Roswell, N.M., by journalist Hugh Downs, with activation of the transmissions scheduled for 7 p.m. ET Saturday. Images from Roswell and Evpatoria, as well as loads of background information, are being made available via the Cosmic Call Web site, publicist Susan Schonfeld said.
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FCC Finalizes Media Ownership Rules
The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday released final versions of its media ownership rules, a move expected to trigger a response from lawmakers who already are fighting the measures.
The Republican-controlled FCC eased decades-old restrictions on ownership of newspapers and television and radio stations with a 3-2 party-line vote on June 2. The decision allowed individual companies to own television stations that reach in total nearly half the nation's viewers, and combinations of newspapers and broadcast stations in the same city.
The agency's chairman, Michael Powell, said in a statement released with the 257-page document that the FCC succeeded in "building modern rules that take proper account of the explosion of new media outlets for news, information and entertainment, rather than perpetuate the graying rules of a bygone black and white era."
His comments echoed those of many media companies that said changes were needed because the old restrictions hindered their ability to grow and compete in a market changed by cable television, satellite broadcasts and the Internet.
Critics say the rules will lead to mergers that could put just a few companies in control of what most people see, hear and read.
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Facility Managers, Event Promoters Free From Prosecution, Says IAAM
In response to a CelebrityAccess post of a June 19 AP story titled, Concert Promoters Fear Amber Alert, the IAAM advised CelebrityAccess, from a release dated April 15, about how facility managers and event promoters will not be prosecuted.
After more than a year in the making with numerous revisions, the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act passed both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate late last week. The original bill, formerly known as the RAVE act, was opposed by IAAM who worked with Senator Joseph Biden, Jr., to revise the language that would have made public assembly facility managers liable for "knowing or reasonably ought to know" that drugs would be used in the facility.
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happy birthday america
the usa is an interesting country.
there is martha stewart. martha stewart is the hyacinth bucket of north america.
martha stewart has published hundreds of thousands of words about how to dust and
how to vaccuum. she has written reams about the fine points of
selecting antique bed and table linens. martha stewart has big legal difficulties
around her financial portfolio because even though she worked in the stock market
industry, she was apparently unable to grasp the fine points of ethical behavior.
nevertheless she has many many admirers and an incomparable victim-script:
she was not quite as unethical as mr enron, who is a white male.
there is the present white house administration. the present administration
appears intent on doing an homage to the 19th century Grand Tour, only this time
through the middle east complete with heavy artillery and a snipe hunt. today
i learn that there will be an apparently unscheduled stop in liberia.
back here at usa, world headquarters, members of the present administration
are busy apparently trying to subvert the bill of rights. these guys have
studied their orwell. they are lacing their language with words like "patriot"
while trying to limit the regular person's ability to speak freely, write freely, and
inevitably, think freely while trying to encourage the meter reader and the
postman and the neighbor to watch one another looking for "signs of
unusual behavior". i am all for cultural diversity. this new pattern of
usa governance has a long and hallowed history in latin america which of course
no one living in latin america would dare say anything about.
the present white house administration comes to us courtesy of soundbytes and
mass-mind media. we all know that. the present administration comes to us
courtesy of the political and financial interests of large corporate entities. it
comes to us because we did not vote, perhaps, and because many ignorant, poorly
informed, emotional people watched the campaign ads during
jerry springer and judge judy and voted for us. we all know that.
we can learn about corporate interests from medieval cultural
history. we can play with language and think this way: there is a prince in
seattle. there is a shogun at redwood shores. there is a duke in new york city.
they have their vassals. they have their serfs. serfs r us. they have not yet
invoked the jus primae noctis, but give them time. they are hard-working people.
the bill of rights creates difficulties for large interests. the bill of rights had its origins
in the desire to pretect the regular person from the power of governance. before
such protections, dissent had a big price. we still see this in the middle east, in
asia, in africa, in latin america. the people who wrote the bill of rights had
their own problems to be sure, but their heads were in the right place.
i like the bill of rights.
i hate to see it go.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html
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Frank Lloyd Wright's '57 Plan for Baghdad May Be Key to Its Future
How can the US build public support in Iraq?Two Middle Eastern specialists at the Library of Congress say the answer lies in little-known plans by the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for rebuilding Baghdad into a glittering capital of Islamic culture like the one that once dazzled the world.via PLANetizen.
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LMC
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Cyborglogs ("glogs")
"The main difference between weBLOGS and cyborGLOGS is that blogs often originate from a desktop computer, wheras glogs can originate while walking around, often without any conscious thought and effort, as stream-of-(de)consciousness glogging: "
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Reaping the whirlwind
Extreme weather prompts unprecedented global warming alert
In an astonishing announcement on global warming and extreme weather, the World Meteorological Organisation signalled last night that the world's weather is going haywire.
In a startling report, the WMO, which normally produces detailed scientific reports and staid statistics at the year's end, highlighted record extremes in weather and climate occurring all over the world in recent weeks, from Switzerland's hottest-ever June to a record month for tornadoes in the United States - and linked them to climate change.
The unprecedented warning takes its force and significance from the fact that it is not coming from Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth, but from an impeccably respected UN organisation that is not given to hyperbole (though environmentalists will seize on it to claim that the direst warnings of climate change are being borne out).
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Hackers release Xbox tool despite Microsoft threats
A group of hackers claims to have publicly posted software that defeats all Xbox security measures, after failing to win concessions from Microsoft
A group of Xbox hackers called "Free-X" claim to have broken all security measures on the games console without any hardware modifications whatsoever, prompting Microsoft to threaten a legal attack against its members.
The claimed exploit was posted to a mailing list.
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Yes, Anyone Can be a Journalist!
For proof, see the Virtual Journalist.
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The Googleatus Trilogy
If the conspiracy theories hold true - seconds after I hit "Publish" on this sucker, the entire blog will go dark and sallow men in bad sunglasses will show up at my door.
But what the hell...
I'm sure the dark underbelly of the Net is thickly lined with stuff like this, but it's not often that it pops so close to the surface. There must be fissures appearing in the Matrix. (via)
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The artist as a young hacker
Elliot McGucken, a part-time physics professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is just back from an open-source software conference -- the conference on Open Source Content Management, or OSCOM -- at Harvard. While there, McGucken, 33, and his colleague Blake Waters discussed Authena, an open-source program for artists, musicians, photographers and authors. Authena allows creative types to sell their work online while controlling their rights to the material. Connect's Christina Dyrness caught up with McGucken -- who also started the Web site www.jollyroger.com, which is devoted to classic books -- on the Chapel Hill campus and tried to get him to talk about Authena, which is a project sponsored by the Durham-based Center for the Public Domain. Q.Let's start at the beginning. What is Authena?
A.It's about the application of open-source to the arts. And it also kind of ties into the rise of the artist hacker. Because when you look at the Linux operating system, it's all created by hackers.
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More Embryo Meddling Sparks Anger
Scientists in the United States have created hybrid human "she-males," mixing male and female cells in the same embryo, outraging fertility experts and anti-abortionists.
Dr. Norbert Gleicher of the Foundation for Reproductive Medicine in Chicago and a colleague injected male cells into female embryos in research that they believe could lead to better treatments or cures for single gene disorders.
But their work provoked revulsion when they presented it to the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
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A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
Published July 1, 2003 on the "Networks, Economics, and Culture" mailing list.
This is a lightly edited version of the keynote Clay Shirky gave on Social Software at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference in Santa Clara on April 24, 2003
Also see: Jon's excellent thoughts on Social Software, Wiki, and more at Weblogsky.
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Hackers organize vandalism contest
A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the holiday weekend.
The contest awards points to vandal groups for defacing Web sites, with higher points awarded for sites that are run on less common servers. The winner of the contest will be the group that defaces 6,000 servers in the shortest amount of time.
The numbers had some security companies warning clients to be on guard for defacement activity.
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PLANETARY/BATMAN:NIGHT ON EARTH REVIEW
The basic premise is that the son of one of the science city zero survivors is loose in Gotham City and is killing it’s inhabitants in an unusual fashion. Elijah Snow, Jakita Wagner and the Drummer have been called in by Dick Grayson, at the local Planetary office, to investigate. Their prey, thanks to the science city experiments, has an unusual, and seemingly uncontrollable, ability to shift a localised area through the multiverse. And that’s when they meet Batman.
Speaking of which...it's no wonder that Warren Ellis is Whitey's favorite graphic novelist...and speaking of BB, one of my favorite Sci-Fi authors is writing the guest bar at BB. Ahhhh, and he's even blogged one of my favorite sci-fac books. Check it.
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hail to the new guest editor
in mexico, humdog was very good with obsidian.
nowadays, humdog is very good with literary theory and
cultural history. humdog writes poetry but the
whole idea of poetry as it is practiced in this
society makes humdog squeamish. humdog is a highly
polished musician but the term concert pianist
gives humdog hives.
humdog is honored to have contributed essays, and
served as advisor, to a few good books. people like
to call humdog names: pandora's vox. ms hot tamale.cauldron farouche. trouble.
now go away.
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1602
"1602 is an 8-issue mini, set in a Marvel Universe in which, for reasons which will take a while to uncover, the whole Marvel Universe is starting to occur 500 years early: Sir Nicholas Fury is head of the Queen's Intelligence, Dr Stephen Strange is her court physician (and magician), the Inquisition is torturing "witchbreed", many of whom have taken sanctuary in England under the wing of Carlos Javier, and now a mysterious treasure -- which may be a weapon of some kind -- is being sent from Jerusalem to England by the last of the Templars. Something that may save the world, or destroy it, which has already attracted the attention of such people as Count Otto Von Doom (known as "The Handsome")...
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Behold the pentaquark
"Physicists have discovered a new class of subatomic particle that will provide unexpected insights into the fundamental building blocks of matter. "
The discovery involves quarks - particles that make up the protons and neutrons usually found in the nuclei of atoms.
The new particle is the so-called pentaquark - five quarks in formation. Until now, physicists had only seen quarks packed into two- or three-quark combinations.
They say the discovery of this new particle should have far-reaching consequences for our understanding of how the Universe is put together.
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Promoting Freedom with 'Illegal' Art
The show is sponsored by Stay Free! magazine and has support from others including the Internet Archive.
From their site:The laws governing "intellectual property" have grown so expansive in recent years that artists need legal experts to sort them all out. Borrowing from another artwork--as jazz musicians did in the 1930s and Looney Tunes illustrators did in 1940s--will now land you in court. If the current copyright laws had been in effect back in the day, whole genres such as collage, hiphop, and Pop Art might have never have existed.
The irony here couldn't be more stark. Rooted in the U.S. Constitution, copyright was originally intended to facilitate the exchange of ideas but is now being used to stifle it.
The Illegal Art Exhibit will celebrate what is rapidly becoming the "degenerate art" of a corporate age: art and ideas on the legal fringes of intellectual property. Some of the pieces in the show have eluded lawyers; others have had to appear in court.
Loaded with gray areas, intellectual property law inevitably has a silencing effect, discouraging the creation of new works.
Should artists be allowed to use copyrighted materials? Where do the First Amendment and "intellectual property" law collide? What is art's future if the current laws are allowed to stand? Stay Free! considers these questions and others in our multimedia program.
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For in-depth information about copyright law and its impact on free expression, please see the new "copyright" issue of Stay Free! magazine, which includes the Illegal Art Catalog and will be available at all exhibit events. See also Copyright Articles and Illegal Art Links.
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U.S. Develops Urban Surveillance System
The Pentagon is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a foreign city.
Police, scientists and privacy experts say the unclassified technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans.
The project's centerpiece is groundbreaking computer software that is capable of automatically identifying vehicles by size, color, shape and license tag, or drivers and passengers by face.
The software may also provide instant alerts after detecting a vehicle with a license plate on a watchlist, or search months of records to locate and compare vehicles spotted near terrorist activities.
The project is being overseen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Its other projects include developing software that scans databases of everyday transactions and personal records worldwide to predict terrorist attacks and creating a computerized diary that would record and analyze everything a person says, sees, hears, reads or touches.
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Morpheus goes to Congress to stick up for file sharers
MORPHEUS, the company behind one of the biggest music-swapping software applications in the US, has said they will battle US music industry plans to sue those who use 'peer-to-peer' networks by taking a campaign to the seat of power in the States.
The company said it will lobby CONGRESS in a bid to fight the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) plans to sue those found to be illegally distributing songs through software like Morpheus and Kazaa.
"The record industry called peer-to-peer users pirates, but what these people are, are hundreds of millions of voters," Michael Weiss, boss of Morpheus parent company Stream Cast said.
"At the end of next month, we're going to be involved in helping to mobilise peer-to-peer users around the world and ultimately around the globe to ensure that their voices are heard," he added.
Weiss told the BBC, "There's been too much misinformation and rhetoric. We're going to facilitate that consumers' voices are heard in Congress."
P2P alliance to counter RIAA?
The company behind the popular Kazaa file-swapping software plans to launch a trade group Wednesday to push the case for peer-to-peer networking.
Kazaa distributor Sharman Networks and partner Altnet hope their new group, called the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA), will help legitimize the much-maligned peer-to-peer industry, which has come under fire from Hollywood, politicians and the recording industry for being a haven for pirates.
Martin Lafferty, the DCIA's chief executive, said the group is hoping to provide a neutral forum where companies that are affected by or involved in peer-to-peer or distributed computing technology can meet to establish business practices, to encourage the adoption of standards and to help shape public policy.
The association hopes to attract peer-to-peer network providers, software makers and Internet service providers as members. It also aims to draft content providers such as the movie studios and record labels. Ideally, members will be optimistic about the business opportunities presented by peer-to-peer technologies, but will also believe that copyright owners should be compensated for their work, according a DCIA white paper.
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Nanotechnology for beginners
The European Commission has prepared a set of slides providing brief and straightforward explanations of nanotechnology.
Interest in nanotechnology is rising, and is spreading from the scientific community to society as a whole. The slides were conceived for the younger public, but are also suitable for a broader audience with little or no basic scientific knowledge. It is hoped that the slides will help the public to discover and understand the significance of nanotechnology, and to get an idea of its potential applications.
The set is available in 11 languages and can be downloaded from the CORDIS nanotechnology site at the reference below.
To access the slides, please visit:
http://www.cordis.lu/nanotechnology/src/young-public.htm
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Parallel universes, the Matrix, and superintelligence
Physicists are converging on a "theory of everything," probing the 11th dimension, developing computers for the next generation of robots, and speculating about civilizations millions of years ahead of ours, says Dr. Michio Kaku, author of the best-sellers Hyperspace and Visions and co-founder of String Field Theory, in this interview by KurzweilAI.net Editor Amara D. Angelica.
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Long, Strange Trips :: Astrobiology Magazine :: Search for Life in the Universe
A quarter century of planetary exploration has pushed the limits of what could even be imagined: comets colliding with planets, rovers driving across martian soil, and footpads resting on venusian crust so hot it could melt lead. Astrobiology Magazine relives the year-by-year timeline, and anticipates the feats yet to come.
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New Magic Number "16" Where Nuclei Exist Stably Discovered
Researcher Akira Ozawa, Senior Researcher Isao Tanihata and others of RIKEN (the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) have become the first in the world to discover a new magic number "16" in neutron-rich isotopes, where atomic nuclei can exist stably. The research results appeared in the June 12 issue of "Physical Review Letters," the proceedings of the American Physical Society.
An atomic nucleus consisting of protons and neutrons becomes stable when the number of protons and number of neutrons satisfy given numbers called magic numbers. The magic numbers known so far were "2", "8", "20", "28", "50", "82" and "126." ............................
This was just the missing shells from the Leahy equations!!!!! ...which can now be shown as :
(666/(10^((10^((2*Pi)+8))/125.990702409/82/50/28/20/16/8/2/666)))^2 = a(em)
The proof is the missing magic number ..16.. creates Plato's mysterious cyclic number ...2592.. a collective unconscious number:
(10^((2*Pi)+8))/125.990702409/82/50/28/20/16/8/2 = 2591.999784
....of which:
2591.999784 / 666 = 3.891891567 = the collective unconscious constant.
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Rock art find makes Stonehenge seem recent
It has been described as the most significant Aboriginal rock art find in 50 years but yesterday an exultant Bob Carr insisted that the stencils and drawings - some 4000 years old - were simply "the greatest advertisement for saving wild places in national parks."
Hidden on the walls of a rock shelter deep inside a remote area of Wollemi National Park, the 203 drawings depict an extraordinary array of images and styles, from birds, lizards and wallabies to stencils of hands, boomerangs and axes, a naturalistic, soaring eagle and even a depiction of a wombat, rarely found in rock art.
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I am a 'net pirate'
One so-called 'net pirate' says the industry has got it all wrong and should not be trying to crack down on those who download music from the internet.
The music industry still wants us to buy glossy CD albums with gatefold sleeves from record shops and does not care if we like tracks one to five but hate tracks six to 11.
It wants us to buy CD singles, even though we are paying for a high price for one song with a few dodgy "b-sides" and poor packaging adding to the cost.
The industry wants to create a handful of global superstars and foist them a global teen audience but is not interested in anyone over 30 years old.
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Logarithmic timeline of universe
"Heinz von Foerster did one of these around 1930, to test how evenly major historical events would fill it (not very evenly). Choosing a 'NOW' point is problematic (it keeps changing!) but I picked 31Dec 2001 for convenience.
It's precisely divided into 1015 lines covering the Big Bang (NOW minus 10^10.14 years) to 31Dec 2000 (NOW minus 10^0.00, aka one year). If I manage to find one link per line, this will make the page about 100k, which is the maximum Google will index. " |
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% Hacking the Xbox_
This hands-on guide to hacking was cancelled by the original publisher, Wiley, out of fear of DMCA-related lawsuits. After a period of direct distribution by the author, Hacking the Xbox is brought to you by the No Starch Press. The book begins with a few step-by-step tutorials on hardware modifications that teaches basic hacking techniques as well as essential reverse engineering skills. The book progresses into a discussion of the Xbox security mechanisms and other advanced hacking topics, with an emphasis on educating the readers on the important subjects of computer security and reverse engineering. Hacking the Xbox includes numerous practical guides, such as where to get hacking gear, soldering techniques, debugging tips and an Xbox hardware reference guide.
Hacking the Xbox confronts the social and political issues facing today's hacker. The book introduces readers to the humans behind the hacks through several interviews with master hackers. | By way of
Also see:ADAM: A Decentralized Parallel Computer Architecture Featuring Fast Thread and Data Migration and a Uniform Hardware Abstraction by Andrew “bunnie” Huang Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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Pure Math, Pure Joy
A mathematician, the Hungarian lover of numbers Paul Erdos once said, is a device for converting coffee into theorems. Here, then, are a few glimpses into the Truth Factory. The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, sustained mostly by the National Science Foundation, sits on a hill above the University of California at Berkeley, where it attracts people from around the world for stints of up to a year to lose themselves in subjects like algebraic geometry or special holonomy.
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Incunabula
People keep asking us here at Incunabula.org if we know about this recording. So, in response to your inquiries, yes we're aware.
Originally released in 1993 on the now defunct Chicago label Wax Traxx, Autechre's Incunabula is experiencing a bit of a revival lately. Most of the old Wax Traxx catalog has been acquired and is undergoing re-release, which may explain Incunabula's recent rediscovery and revival.
Incunabula grooves and twists its way across dimensions and time in a ambient-techno-trance kinda way. Tracks like Eggshell and Doctrine will lap on to the shores of your mind like gentle ocean waves. Check it.
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Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised
While historic material relating to living on wheels forms the heart of our collection, we see that focus less as confining bookends and more as a solid embarkation point for continuing adventures in hunting and gathering. We often acquire material that helps define an era or a design style, and very often that continues along the themes of transportation and architecture, though not always.
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The Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products
"ACME is a worldwide leader of many manufactured goods. From its humble beginnings providing corks and flypaper to bug collectors ('Buddy's Bug Hunt/1935') to its heyday in the American Southwest supplying a certain coyote, from Ultimatum Dispatchers to Batman outfits, ACME has set the standard for excellence.
For the first time ever, information and pictures of all ACME products, specialty divisions, and services (from 1935 to 1964) are gathered here, in one convenient catalog. For more information about any ACME product, simply click on the thumbnail picture. Thanks to Warner Bros. studios and their fine animation department for advertising ACME products in their cartoons!!"
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Music stylists
Activaire is a new "music stylist" company offering a peculiar service: for $100 a month they rent out an iPod with 30 hours of hip electronic music to stores, hotels, etc. They even have architects on hand to determine what music sounds best in different places.
Metropolis magazine hired them to created a soundtrack for three famous buildings, which is available online.
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Ten Thousand Monkeys turns 53
Welcome to the first-half-of-July issue of M10K. Can you hear the drone of the cicadas? Feel the humidity in the air? Can you hear the tearing sound of your naked thighs pulling off the searing black vinyl of your auntie Petunia's Duster's car seat? All the signs are there ... summer has finally arrived!
So, pull up a chaise, pour yourself a lemonade, and kick back and laze around some—we've got some great stuff for you to read out by the pool. Errrr, if you've got a laptop with a wireless connection that is.
As always, check it out. Let us know what you think (even if it's "Sum sum sum sum sum sum summertime, Sum sum sum sum sum sum summertime, Sum sum sum sum sum sum summertime, Summertiiiiiiiiiime!").
OO OOO OOOO, this just in ... our roving reporter, and honorary Hemingwayesque chronicler of the world at large, Quintus, has just revealed another hidden talent (other than his penchant for running up bar tabs, and then skipping not only town, but the entire country) ... he is not only a literary lion, but a comic lion too. Check out his brand new comic strip if you don't believe me.
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Official SARS homepage
Testimonial:
Sars can kill anyone it wants! Sars melts off heads ALL the time and doesn't even think twice about it. This virus is so crazy and awesome that it flips out ALL the time. I heard that there was this guy who was at a store. And some dude came in with sars and killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a dude with sars totally sneezing out of a window.
(a parody of The Real Ninja Homepage)
(via Aberrant News)
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911 Redux
The French had accurate 911 intelligence and just happened to have a film crew on the street that day which just happened to have a clear view of the WTC with a camera that just happened to have a long distance lens to take in the WTC attack.
http://www.taner.net/wtc/media/First_Plane_Crash_SLOW_.mpeg
I have a high-resolution Panasonic PanaSync/Pro PL70i 17 inch monitor that I usually run at 800x600. The lower resolutions improve viewing. Normally I have Windows Media Player for opening mpegs. Something that I usually don't bother with. Playing with the size of WMP changes the quality of screen. Smaller screen better.
With the movement of the camera across the brick building as it aims at the WTC it is important to use the slider on WMP to start and freeze action after the camera passes the building. Best to turn off the volume in order to better concentrate on viewing. Two objects can be seen: the lower plane and an upper white object that is separating from an apparently tight flying formation and making a get-a-way and a sonic boom.
Turn on the audio and at the end of the clip can be heard a sonic boom.
http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/airplane/airplane.html Needs Java turned on. Explains plane location when a sonic boom is heard from a jet flying faster than the speed of sound (750 mph.)
Typical of M$ products Windows Media Player is hardly better than nothing. QuickTime from www.apple.com is superior in every way. Again varying screen resolutions affects the viewing. The sonic boom knocks you out of the chair!
Alternatively viewing the DVD "911" using Ravisnet software the WTC crash scene with two airplanes can be paused for closer examination on the computer. Doubt that a television would work.
CaptureX Pro 1.2 from www.cliprex.com allows saving of frames from mpegs.
Interesting that the Flight 93 Mirror article mentions a small WHITE jet that several witnesses saw but the FBI claims to be a 'business jet" or never existed!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12192317&method=full&siteid=50143
Photos of the Saab 105 SK60 series military jet.
http://user.tninet.se/~xpz458v/SAAB105-SK60_english.htm
http://www.canit.se/~griffon/aviation/text/60saab105.html
http://www.canit.se/~griffon/aviation/img/saab/
This plane fits the description given by eye witnesses. It is a 2 seater allowing one person to pilot in tight formation right above the airliner and another person to remote-control the other plane. The plane remote-controlled to Australia had a second plane monitoring it apparently capable of adjusting directions if the original computer flight plan failed. Obviously a jet not normally flown in this country would be hard to identify. It has a top speed of over 1000 mph and is extremely maneuverable. The Austria Air Force flies them as does Sweden.
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=48
Information on remote-control capability of Boeing 757 and 767 airliners. |
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BLOGage
Lot's of new links in the BLOGage section. (To the right)
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Antiquities of the Illuminati on the new Golden Dawn book
Greetings:
This message is to inform everybody that a slight unplanned update has taken place on the Antiquities of the Illuminati website:
Namely, we are promoting the new Golden Dawn book that has just been released by New Falcon Publications, and we are going to crow about it a bit:
so, here is our short announcement:
http://www.antiqillum.com/main/announce.htm
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The Mgt.™
Networking the HIGHER Learning™
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Be sure and visit ANTIQUITIES OF THE ILLUMINATI at http://www.antiqillum.com From ACME and Sons Publishing Company. © 1997 - 2050 c.e. ACME and Sons Publishing Company. All Rights Reserved.
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A Carpet of Crickets in the West
The worst infestation in 60 years is devastating crops and giving people the creeps.
Millions of ravenous crickets, moving like an ancient plague, are on the march across vast swaths of the West, chewing up everything in their path and leaving a trail of destruction. In cities and towns, on ranches and farms, the brazen bugs have shown up like unwanted dinner guests who would just as soon eat the napkins as the main course.
Traveling in hordes that can measure a mile wide and three miles deep, their wriggling bodies easily carpet streets and highways. The crickets sometimes climb the sides of houses to escape the heat, giving homes an eerie, quivering quality.
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The Fake Economy -- a Case study
"From the naive vantage point of 2000, America Online's $112 billion deal to buy Time Warner -- the largest merger in U.S. history and the subject of Alec Klein's interesting new book, ``Stealing Time'' -- looked like the New Economy's coming of age.
The Internet upstart would buy the old-school entertainment behemoth and reshape it in its own image. The Web had won: America's up-and-comers need never again wear suits to work, or wait, like their parents did, until they grew gray to grow rich. Silicon Valley had believed this for years, of course, but AOL Time Warner hammered home the point for the rest of the nation.
Today's AOL Time Warner symbolizes the opposite. The New Economy was largely the Fake Economy; thousands of failed companies and hundreds of billions of dollars in accounting write-offs proved that. People don't sneer at corporate dinosaurs anymore. They call them survivors. And investors want regulators to protect them because by now they know too much about how the era's fastest-growing firms did business."
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SIDS 'all in the mind' ?
AN Australian scientist believes a parent's worst nightmare - sudden infant death syndrome - may be explained by a child's dream.
Perth-based mathematician George Christos may have stumbled on to unlocking the tragic mystery behind SIDS while studying memory and dreams in neural network models.
According to his fascinating theory, the underlying cause of SIDS is related to babies dreaming they are back in the womb where they did not have to breathe because their mothers supplied them with oxygen through the blood.
While dreaming they don't have to breathe, they really do stop breathing - and die.
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Location aware game ideas
Here's a bunch of game ideas involving GPS, cell phones, etc.Killer in the City This game is based on the party game Murder in the Dark and telecom noir thrillers like Sorry, Wrong Number and Dial M for Murder. Players roam around the city, trying to solve a mystery by voyeuristically observing the lives of apartment dwellers through webcams accessible only in front of the apartment buildings in question. One of the apartments houses the murderer, who can "kill" any player who has visited his/her apartment. Players find the murderer by accessing visitor logs at each access point. As the bodies pile up, players have less and less time to solve the mystery and save themselves. At the end of a game, if no one catches the murderer, the murderer wins a point for each person killed. If the murder is solved, the successful detective wins all the points that the murderer would otherwise have won.
Killer in the City, Part II Players are told that a murder will happen in three days unless they determine who the killer is. Clues to the motive and identity of the would-be killer are scattered across the city in various locations. |
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Europe threatens to ban dietary supplements - U.S. soon to follow?
Currently under consideration in Europe is legislation that will severely limit a consumer's right to choose and use supplements. If this legislation becomes law it will be a major step towards the adoption of global standards for the regulation of dietary supplements, as is being worked on at the UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission. Since the U.S. is part of this process and is a member of the World Trade Organization, the U.S. could be forced to harmonize its vitamin laws with these new, highly restrictive international standards.
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 Ong's Hat: The Beginning |
| "I got really into this "time-travel cult" called Ong's Hat when a computer-game programmer I know told me she was contacted by a physics scholar who said that a bunch of her recent games reflected their canon. This dude told my friend that someone from Ong's Hat had befriended her and inspired her to create certain games without her realizing it. Whoa, right?" - Jane Magazine |
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